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Friday SNPpets

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment…

RT @PhilippBayer: If you get annoyed about different mobile charger standards, for the love of all that is holy don’t go into bioinformatics

Bonus item: the twitterati were abuzz this week with support for this Zappylab kickstarter project. I totally get the appeal of this–I was the checklist queen in my PhD lab–but used the antique method of paper and pens. I would totally move to this type of tool if I was doing benchwork today. There’s more backstory on the project here too–check it out, and consider supporting the development of this excellent way to crowdsource protocols.